Candidates for Italian Capital of Culture 2025 submit dossiers

The titles of the dossiers of the candidate cities for the title of Italian Capital of Culture 2025 have been announced. The number of candidates has been reduced to 15 from the 16 that were submitted in June: in fact, the city of Lanciano withdrew. Now the candidates are called to present their project, which will be submitted for evaluation by a commission of seven experts in cultural heritage management. The winning city will receive a state grant of one million euros, and will be able to showcase, for the period of one year, its original features and the factors that determine its cultural development, understood as an engine for the growth of the entire community.

Here is the list of cities:

1. Agrigento - The Self, the Other and Nature. Relations and cultural transformations
2. Aosta - Aostæ Città Plurale
3. Assisi (Perugia) - Assisi. Creatures and creators
4. Asti - Where culture is cultivated
5. Bagnoregio (Viterbo) - Being Bridges
6. Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria - Locride 2025. A whole different story
7. Enna - Enna 2025. The myth in the heart
8. Monte Sant’Angelo (Foggia) - Monte Sant’Angelo 2025: a mountain on the way
9. Orvieto (Terni) - Meta wonder the culture that trespasses
10. Otranto (Lecce) - Otranto 2025. Mosaic of Cultures
11. Peccioli (Pisa) - ValdEra Ora. The art of living together
12. Pescina (L’Aquila) - Culture does not depopulate
13. Roccasecca (Frosinone) - Vocations. Culture and the pursuit of happiness
14. Spoleto (Perugia) - Culture generates energy
15. Sulmona (L’Aquila) - Culture is metamorphosis

“I am proud that that intuition of the Capital of Culture, in recent years, has grown from edition to edition showing how much planning, programming, sharing with local realities is fundamental for the development of territories. It is significant to note, in the last editions, the participation of even small cities, demonstrating that this recognition has become a great opportunity that, as the data show, ensures returns in terms of visibility, audience and, therefore, also tourism and development opportunities,” said the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini.

The title of Italian Capital of Culture stems from the lively and participatory competition that culminated on October 17, 2014 in the designation of Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019. The commitment, creativity and passion that had led the six finalists to build candidacy dossiers of high design quality convinced the government to proclaim the other five contenders, namely Cagliari, Lecce, Perugia, Ravenna and Siena, Italian Capitals of Culture 2015 and to simultaneously call for a selection process to identify, starting in 2016, the city deserving of this title. The title was subsequently won by Mantua (2016), Pistoia (2017), Palermo (2018), Parma (2020 and 2021), Procida (2022), Bergamo and Brescia (2023), and Pesaro (2024).

Image: Spoleto

Candidates for Italian Capital of Culture 2025 submit dossiers

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